I have never played piano and have no intention to learn, but I have to say piano is one of the best musical instruments. The sound piano produces is great, the music that could be played with a piano range from simple to complex ones. Despite that piano is less mobile than many other instruments, it is one of the most learned and favored musical instrument. The black and white keyboard is a signature inspired many innovative home decoration, product design and graphical design.

Piano Chrome Themes

Piano Web Apps

Plypp Piano is a nice piano keyboard app with over 100000 users. It can produce the sound of 5 musical instruments, Ballad Grand Piano, Guitar, Harpsichord, Panflute and Sawtooth. The beauty of this app is, unlike many other apps, that it uses HTML5 technology so it should run faster. There is a built-in chord finder to let players easily find the chord he or she wants.

ButtonBeats Piano Player is another great piano web app with 80000+ users. It has a killer feature that if you type in a song in the text field the piano could automatically play the song without you pressing a key. This web app has a large collection of songs including pop songs, arcade game background music and classical music. Simply copy and paste the note and click play to enjoy the song.

Color Piano! is a great web app for learning piano. You don’t even need to learn reading sheet music! It’s like playing tap tap tap game, you simply follow the visualized colorful notes to play. This web app includes an import function so you can load MIDI files into it to play (the MIDI file must be piano-only).

The 2012 London Olympics is coming! This big sports event is certainly one of the most expected major event of the year. I can’t wait to watch the games, especially those I like such as diving, swimming, table tennis and gymnastics. Unfortunately most games are carried out when I need to go to work. Luckily there are web sites, web apps and extensions that could help people to follow the latest updates of the Olympics. Here I selected a few to share with you:

2012 London Olympics Bookmarks

These are web sites that you should bookmark if you haven’t done so. The first one is obviously the official London Olympics web site (http://www.london2012.com/). Here you can find the full schedule, results, news, photos, an online souvenir shop and much more information about the London Olympics.

The second one is the official site of the Olympic Movement (http://www.olympic.org/), where you can also find news about the games. What I like about this site is the “Olympic Museum” section, where the history and interesting facts about the Olympics in the past century are shown. Information about the coming Olympics in 2014, 2016 and 2018 (both summer and winter) are also provided!

In the social era, you certainly cannot afford to miss out the social channels of the Olympics. Here are the official Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Google+ pages:

Olympics 2012 – London is NOT an official extension, put it pulls data from a large collections of feeds to provide up-to-minute news about the Olympics. What makes it a good choice to install in Chrome is the option to choose from feeds of individual sports. The extension will then gather only those news related to relevant sports for you.

The featured extension today is extremely simple. It is a handy tool that helps Chrome user to remember important things and enhance productivity.

Have you ever thought that the new tab page in Chrome (i.e. the page that opens when a new tab is opened) is not quite useful? For many people who do not install many web apps, the new tab page does not do much other than a decent bookmarks page. The developer of “Things to Do” came up with a better use of this page, i.e. to display you to do list.

Probably since the only function of this extension is productivity enhancement, the developer removed everything that may get your attention distracted. After installing Things to Do, the only thin you see is a pure text page in white background and black text. You could customize the look and feel by changing the width and text color, if you do wish to add a little personal touch to it.

Using this extension is extremely easy, just enter the task name in the empty box and hit enter. As the list grows, you can re-order the items by dragging and dropping. Deleting an item is as simple as clicking the red cross on the right end.

If you need something simple and effective, Things to Do is a great choice. However, if you are a frequent web app user and would prefer having the web app icons right in front of you every time you open a new tab, this extension does not help.

Have you heard of Chrome Experiments before? It is a web site showcasing what open technologies could do. There are many interactive web pages and games on this site created with open technologies including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL.

Now this site has gone mobile. You could see what the web could do without Java or Flash not only on you desktop or laptop computer, but your mobile too. Despite mobile phones have less powerful specifications, they are capable to impress you. Check out the following video to see what Chrome Experiments are.